All-optical XOR and XNOR operations at 864 Gb/s using a pair of semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometers

• DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.019062
• Publication Date: 2009-10-07T15:35:51Z
• Authors: I. Kang; M. Rasras; L. Buhl; M. Dinu; S. Cabot; M. Cappuzzo; L. T. Gomez; Y. F. Chen; S. S. Patel; N. Dutta; A. Piccirilli; J. Jaques; C. R. Giles
• Keywords: XNOR gate

We propose a method for increased-speed all-optical XOR operation using semiconductor optical amplifiers. demonstrate and XNOR operations at 86.4 Gb/s pair of photonic-integrated amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometers.